Evidence: | 'Hear what I have read since I came here. Hear and wonder! I have in the first place read Boccacio's Decameron, a tale of a hundred cantos...' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jul 1813 and 23 Aug 1813 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | specific address: Aspenden Hall | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Thomas Babington Macaulay |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 25 Oct 1800 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | HIstorian, critic, politician |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Boccacio |
Title: | Decameron |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | In Italian |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 3951 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Thomas Babington Macaulay | |
Editor: | George Otto Trevelyan | |
Title: | Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 54 | |
Additional comments: | Letter of Aug 23, 1815, from Macaulay to his mother. |
Citation: | Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (Oxford, 1978), 1, p. 54, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3951, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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